Old Friends Friday

screened porch said:
He was probably spoofing something in From Here to Eternity, but I never saw that movie anywhere nearly all the way through.
Sid Caesar reprised the spoof in color, with some changes, on somebody else's comedy-variety show, but I haven't been able to find that,

Here's one of my grubbier Kutmaster Barlows.
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Me neither actually Jer, I vaguely remember my parents watching it on TV when I was a kid, and quickly losing interest :D Nice Barlow :thumbsup:
 
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I love this old Carl Schlieper Scout that Duncan Campbellclanman Campbellclanman gave me the best part of a decade ago, the covers are buttery smooth, the steel takes a keen edge, the blade and tools snap into place with authority, and the awl is perfect. I used to carry it when hiking a lot, which is something I need to get back to :thumbsup:

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screened porch said:
I'm still on my kitchen carbon kick. I like best the older ones that don't have fake hammer marks, but I love the lines of this Ekco Forge USA. (Cartoon of two stick men sharing an anvil, between the Forge and the USA.)
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Nice Jer :cool: Those old kitchen knives usually have great steel, and go for a song here :) I do see less and less of them though, partly because there are fewer and fewer fleamarkets :( :thumbsup:
 
Jack Black said:
Nice Jer :cool: Those old kitchen knives usually have great steel, and go for a song here :) I do see less and less of them though, partly because there are fewer and fewer fleamarkets :( :thumbsup:
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There was an estate sale at the end of my street last week. Who knows what I missed? I rounded the corner without seeing the sign. I should have wondered more actively what all that parking was about.
 
My Vic Climber is definitely an Old Friend, but at the beginning of the year, I decided to make a few changes to it. Off went the old red covers, and on went these textured G10 ones. I also added a number of new accesories, so it now has tweezers, a mini screwdriver, a small ferro rod, and tinder, a pen, a steel pin, and a tool for opening a SIM card drawer :thumbsup:

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Very cool.
This is a Hoffritz I almost didn't buy, because I had enough kitchen knives. (Solingen/ Germany/ Molybdenum/ Stainless.)
It's part of a small set that I find rather touching.
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Somebody loved them enough to keep them in their presentation box, and used them enough to steel recurves into their edges.
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I found a sheath that works for this one.
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The blade is a generous 3mm thick, making it a de facto gaucho knife in my book.
 
screened porch said:
Very cool.
This is a Hoffritz I almost didn't buy, because I had enough kitchen knives. (Solingen/ Germany/ Molybdenum/ Stainless.)
It's part of a small set that I find rather touching.
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Somebody loved them enough to keep them in their presentation box, and used them enough to steel recurves into their edges.
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I found a sheath that works for this one.
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The blade is a generous 3mm thick, making it a de facto gaucho knife in my book.
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Thanks mate, shame it doesn't have a Lambsfoot! :D I wouldn't have been able to resist that set either, even though I have far too many kitchen knives :D The sheath is a bonus :cool:

Definitely NOT a Gaucho Knife, but I find this one by Nicholas Nichols so useful in the kitchen that I got a sheath for it :thumbsup:

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screened porch said:
Nice sway in that swayback! [Meant to be above my first picture^]
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An ordinary, excellent Camillus.
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Thanks buddy, I think those ACs were the least trouble of all the SFOs I had done :rolleyes: Nice Camillus :thumbsup:
Just Tom. said:
This one again. Owned since new. Trying a new image hosting service here for any Brits in the audience…
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Very thoughtful of you Tom :) That's aged nicely :cool: :thumbsup:
DaveHS said:
An old Sabatier paring knife at my mother in law’s house. Used and abused in her kitchen for years. Nobody remembers where it came from. I was delighted to find it in her utensils drawer. Still takes a keener edge than any of her other cheap knives.
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Those Sabatier's were a great buy :thumbsup:
 
I was sent this EKA 88 - with Normark branding - for review, in the early 90's. It used to be one of my regular winter coat pocket carries, but I don't think I carried it last year. I've had a lot of Scandanavian knives over the years, but don't recall another folder :thumbsup:

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